At the end of this message, I have (trimmed) code for an
IntegrationTest, controller, and model.
The IntegrationTest posts to a URL that should destroy a model object
(“Secondary”). The Secondary belongs_to a Principal. The Secondary is
not deleted, nor is it removed from the Principal’s has_many secondaries
relationship. (See the FAILS comments in the IntegrationTest.)
The PeopleControllerTest functional test exercises the same action in
the same way, and in that, the destroy succeeds. Running the application
from a browser, for the same action, succeeds.
I’d like my integration test to test whether user actions have effect in
the model. I understood that was the purpose. What is the cause of this
problem, or how should I pursue it?
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [universal-darwin9.0]
Rails 1.2.6
-- F
In IntegrationTest
def test_existing_login
https!(true)
person = Principal.find_by_loginid(‘t-9fritz’)
(omitted) log the person in and verify success
There should be one secondary for this person. Delete it.
assert_equal 1, person.secondaries.count
n_secondaries = Secondary.count
sec_id = person.secondaries.first.id
post_via_redirect ‘/people/delete_secondary/’ + sec_id.to_s
(omitted) verify the redirect is as expected
assert_equal n_secondaries - 1, Secondary.count
^ FAILS. Secondary.count is unchanged.
assert_raises(ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound) { Person.find(sec_id) }
^ FAILS: The record is still in the DB.
assert_equal 0, person.secondaries.count
^ FAILS: The secondaries list is unchanged.
end
In PeopleController
def delete_secondary
@person = Person.find(params[:id])
principal = @person.principal
flash[:notice] = "Deleted contact #{@person.full_name}"
@person.destroy
redirect_to :action => :show, :id => principal
end
In person.rb
people is the table; Principal and Secondary are single-table
inheritors.
class Principal < Person
has_many :secondaries, :class_name => ‘Secondary’,
:dependent => :destroy
validates_associated :secondaries, :allow_nil => true
…
end
class Secondary < Person
belongs_to :principal
…
end